Daily Stop Dairy is a small supermarket at 1 Boulcott Street, right in Wellington's central business district, currently holding a 2.5 rating on Google.
In New Zealand a dairy is the local word for a corner shop, and city-centre versions live on convenience rather than range. They carry milk, bread, snacks, papers and last-minute dinner fixings, serving office workers at lunchtime and apartment dwellers between the big weekly shops. Prices typically sit a little above the large suburban supermarkets, so the value is in speed and proximity rather than choice. What separates a good one is what regulars notice first: fresh basics, a queue that moves, and opening hours that suit the working day.
For a quick top-up or lunchtime essentials, Daily Stop Dairy is right there on Boulcott Street in the middle of the CBD.